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Buzz Hub members standing with Rudy in front of the bus, smiling at the camera on a sunny winter morning.

Envisaging Futures

7th Dec 2022

Working with collaborators from Buzz Hub, St Helens, artist Rudy Loewe has developed a new public artwork you can spot on the streets.

Project Details
Categories
  • Collectivity
Creative Team
  • Artist: Rudy Loewe
  • Collaborators: Julie, Faye, Laura, Cheryl, Paul, Melissa, Victoria, Bill, Jessica, Callum, Lewis, Stephen, Katie, Sue, Linda, Ebonny, Gillian, Claire, Emma, Jenny and Ellie
  • Producers: Angharad Williams and Rhyannon Parry

Envisaging Futures is a new public artwork enveloping Buzz Hub’s community van. The graphic artwork created by Rudy with a community of disabled adults from St Helens represents the personalities at Buzz Hub and highlights invisible disabilities.

Buzz Hub bus from the back with Rudy Loewe's vinyl wrap applied, the bus is dark blue and the wrap has a turquoise background with a purple wiggly line wrapping around it and the workshop illustrations dotted around it.
Images provided by Buzz Hub
Buzz Hub bus with Rudy Loewe's vinyl wrap applied, it is mostly turquoise with a purple wiggly line wrapping around the bus with illustrations from the workshops dotted around it.
Images provided by Buzz Hub

Uplifting and representing different kinds of bodies

Collaborators created original pieces using techniques like marbling, painting, drawing and building from clay over a series of workshops. Rudy then collaged these designs together to create a unique artwork for the van.

The original artwork will be kept by Buzz Hub and form part of an exhibition later next year.

Rudy Loewe has worked with communities in St Helens before (including Buzz Hub through the Shielding Voices zine project), and has been a collaborator of Heart of Glass since 2020. They typically work with painting, drawing, printmaking, text and sometimes produce comics. Rudy is interested in social dynamics and histories, politics and uplifting and representing different kinds of bodies in their work, through community engagement. For Rudy, bringing conversations to spaces where they might not otherwise be heard is really important.

An illustration of the bus wrap graphic on the side of the buzz hub bus.
An illustration of the bus wrap on the back of the buzz hub bus
An Illustration of the bus wrap graphic on the Buzz Hub bus.

About Buzz Hub

Buzz Hub is an organisation dedicated to creating opportunities which support the independence, involvement and contribution of disabled people within our community. They listen to their members to develop activities which reflect their wishes, dreams and aspirations.

Envisaging Futures gives people from across St Helens the opportunity to experience ‘art on the move’, part of a wider programme of public art which includes murals in the town centre and beyond.

Rudy and a workshop participant working on a clay model together.
Images provided by Buzz Hub
2 buzz hub members participate in the workshop, one is smiling at the camera and the other is working in the background, they are using inks to create marbling.
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A Buzz Hub member in a plastic apron and plastic gloves holding a piece of card in a tray of ink to create a marble painting.
Images provided by Buzz Hub
A Buzz Hub member holding her marble painting in a gloved hand, smiling at the camera and wearing a red apron.
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A Buzz Hub member experimenting with inks, wearing a pink apron and smiling as she works.
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An abstract marble piece with black, blue, yellow and orange inks blending into each other.
Images provided by Buzz Hub
A buzz hub member working on a marbling piece with inks, two women are smiling whilst watching him work.
Images provided by Buzz Hub
A Buzz hub member smiling a the camera whilst drawing a picture
Images provided by Buzz Hub

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About the artist

Rudy Loewe

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